Change

Changes

Acquia Dev Desktop now generates 4096 bit keys for use with connecting websites to Acquia Cloud.

Upgraded Drush to version 8.0.5.

Upgraded MySQL to version 5.5.48-37.8

Upgraded PHP to version 7.0.4.

Fixed issues

The installed version of Drush used PHP 5.4 when no website was selected. (IN-1213)

In some circumstances, large Acquia Dev Desktop sql.gz files used an excessive amount of disk space. (IN-2370)

Acquia Dev Desktop created keys that could not be used to connect to Acquia Cloud 1.89.1 or greater. (IN-2436)

Attempting to update Composer displayed the following error, and did not complete successfully: Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "https://getcomposer.org/version" file could not be downloaded: SSL operation failed with code 1. (IN-2437)

The link to the Known Issues documentation page was broken. (IN-2487)

Acquia Dev Desktop was not compatible with SVN version 1.9.*. (IN-2528)

Change

Fixed issues

When using Acquia Dev Desktop on Windows 8 or Windows 10 computers, operations requiring an Apache restart (such as installing another distribution) would fail. (IN-2259)

Attempting to clone local Drupal 8 websites displayed the following error and did not complete successfully: Could not get database configuration of the default multisite. drush-sql conf failed. Make sure that your site in the Cloud works correctly with drush. (IN-2302)

On computers using OS X, if both the RSA and DSA keys are stored in the user's SSH agent, Acquia Dev Desktop failed to complete some operations (including cloning a website). (IN-2305)

Acquia Dev Desktop contains the following new features, updates, and fixes:

Features

Generate SSH key pairs

In order to sync a local website with Acquia Cloud, you need to register an SSH key in your Acquia user profile. If you don't already have one, you can now generate a public/private key pair using Acquia Dev Desktop. Learn more.

Connect using a proxy

You can now configure Acquia Dev Desktop to connect to your Acquia Cloud subscription through a proxy. Learn more.

PHP 7 support

Acquia Dev Desktop now includes PHP 7. This version of PHP provides substantial performance benefits, especially for Drupal 8. Note, however, that PHP 7 does not include many PHP extensions that are included with the PHP 5 versions, because they are not available yet.

Changes

Apache has been upgraded to version 2.4.16.

MySQL (Percona Server has been upgraded to version 5.5.44-37.3.

PHP has been upgraded to versions 5.5.30 and 5.6.14.

phpMyAdmin has been upgraded to version 4.4.14.

Drush has been upgraded to version 8.0.0 rc1.

Fixed issues

In some circumstances, when syncing databases for a multisite installation, the wrong database was updated. (IN-2069)

When you install Drupal 8, the installer skips the Set up database phase, since Acquia Dev Desktop provides the database credentials. (IN-2117)

Added patch.exe to the Windows version of Acquia Dev Desktop, so that drush make now works. (IN-2123)

Added support for JPEG in the imagick library. (IN-2135)

An issue with git checkout could cause errors in cloning sites. (IN-2150)

In some circumstances, Acquia Dev Desktop could crash when the OS wakes up from sleep mode. (IN-2185)

An error occurred when making a local clone of a site that has a tag deployed. (IN-2199)

Importing a site with very long file names on Windows could cause Acquia Dev Desktop to crash. (IN-2215)